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CEREMONIAL: Rabbi Elaine S. Zecher, who served as an adviser on a new prayer book, holds a shofar, a ram’s horn used in the celebration of Rosh Hashana and at the end of Yom Kippur, inside the sanctuary at Temple Israel Boston.

Hundreds of thousands of Reform Jews will celebrate the High Holidays of Rosh Hashana and Yom Kippur this fall with a revamped prayer book that puts a new emphasis on inclusiveness toward gays, lesbians and atheists, according to a Boston rabbi who was instrumental in the book’s creation.

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